11) 9008. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 9008 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against...
12) 3280. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 3280 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box—the result of mixing Lloyd s of London with the...
13) 3281. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 3281 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means . airline insurance replaces...
14) 9009. Cecil Beaton. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 9009 AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton QUOTATION: I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back...
15) 9054. Alan Jay Lerner. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 9054 AUTHOR: Alan Jay Lerner QUOTATION: We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the...
16) 4502. Hank Brennan. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...4502 AUTHOR: Hank Brennan QUOTATION: His baroque is worse than his bite. ATTRIBUTION: On Cecil Beaton, quoted by Hugo Vickers Cecil Beaton Little, Brown 85...
17) 8939. John Gielgud. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. ATTRIBUTION: On Cecil Beaton s decision to act in a production of Lady Windermere s Fan,...
18) 4467. Anonymous. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...and may they never meet. ATTRIBUTION: Favorite toast of the Royal Navy, quoted by Hugo Vickers Cecil Beaton Little, Brown 85...
19) 24404. Garbo, Greta. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...The Divine Garbo, ch. 6, by Frederick Sands and Sven Broman (1979). Originally quoted by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), an English designer and photographer who claimed...
20) 2569. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...cannot destroy. In the presence of this mystery all that is second-rate can be forgotten." (Cecil Beaton) ATTRIBUTION:Quoted in the newspaper obituaries on her death,...
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